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Project HOLISTIC - holistic approach to forest fire prevention and protection in Adriatic area – WP5 - Adriatic forest fire Web GIS service (AdriaFireGIS)

The goal of project HOLISTIC, co- funded by IPA Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme is to propose a sustainable and joint holistic approach to cope with forest fire and seismic risk in Adriatic area. Focus of Work Package 5 (WP5), discussed in this presentation, is on terrestrial analysis concerning forest fire prevention and fire fighting policy in Adriatic region. WP5 aims to enhance the medium term prevention, developing forest fires risk maps and forest fire fight plans, improving accessibility of static and dynamic spatial data about terrestrial, meteorological and sociological features related to fire hazards and fire fighting policy. Aim of this activity is to integrate the prediction of site – specific forest dynamic forest fire risk index, as well as prediction and simulation of forest fire behavior in order to support predictive and operational decisions. Our main task is to improve existing predicting models and tuned them for Adriatic region in order to know timely and on real time the real danger of forest fires and reliable information for the coordination of the on the field interventions. This activity includes detail territory mapping important for pre-fire, fire and post-fire activities using capabilities of Cloud Computing and Internet, integrated through AdriaFireGIS system. It is a standardized Web GIS system adjusted for various forest fire activities based on Open Web GIS standards. Additionally WP5 incudes setting-up of two separate modules of AdriaFireGIS, developed in order to improve forest fire protection and prevention in Adriatic region: • Web based system for dynamic prediction of forest fire risk index on micro – location scale (site-specific) adapted and tuned for Adriatic region (AdriaFireRisk), as well as integrated with automatic forest fire risk warning panels (AdriaFireRiskPanels). • Web based system for prediction and simulation of forest fire behavior and spread, adapted and tuned for Adriatic region (AdriaFirePropagator). Expected outputs include harmonization and improve accessibility to spatial-temporal data important for forest fire activities, but also working prototypes of AdriaFireRisk and AdriaFirePropagator systems for the whole Adriatic region. The project has started in January 2014 and it is now in its final stage. The paper describes current achievements and future expectations.

forest fire prevention; Web GIS; forest fire risk index; forest fire simulation

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